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    2024-25 Public Humanities Hub grants and awards

    The Public Humanities Hub is pleased to announce this year’s funding and award opportunities. Click through title to view.

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    2024-25 PHH Noted Scholar Lecture Series

    Please join us for this year’s Public Humanities Noted Scholar Lecture Series. Click through title to see full details.

  • Latest Toolkit: Infographics

    Thinking of creating infographics in the classroom or as part of your scholarly research output? Check out our latest collaborative toolkit we built with the UBC Learning Exchange and the UBC Library.

  • Check Out Our Scholar Spotlight Series

    Our Scholar Spotlight Series showcases the breadth and depth of public humanities research at UBC. Check out our scholar spotlights to read more about the important work humanities scholars do.

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    Visit Our Video Archive

    Did you miss an event or want to re-watch one? Need to catch up on our #HumaniSeries? Visit our YouTube channel! We’re continually adding videos.

Events

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Fostering Trustworthy Science
Mar 28, 2025 | Although many have argued that science as an institution should be generally trusted by the public, others have noted that there are lots of reasons for distrust between the public and science. This focuses our attention on what should be considered trustworthy science, how to generate that kind of science, and […]

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New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Bernard Perley
Dr. Bernard Perley, Director and Professor in Critical Indigenous Studies and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about his work in language revitalization, experiential pedagogy, and the crucial role art plays in both scholarship and activism.

New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Kavita Philip
Dr. Kavita Philip, Professor of English and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, sits at the epicentre of multiple networks, fostering interdisciplinary research within and beyond the academy. In this Scholar Spotlight, she talks about what it means to speak to a rapidly shifting global public, and finding spaces that allow for experimentation and collaboration.

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Statement of Solidarity
Oct 19, 2023 | UBC Faculty of Arts Statement of Solidarity | Dear Arts community, In recent days, we have been devastated by the outbreak and escalation of violence and the ongoing suffering and loss among Israeli and Palestinian peoples. The current situation is part of a long history that has deeply affected, and continues […]

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Remembering Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
The Public Humanities Hub would like to offer its sincere condolences to Chris Patterson (GRSJ), former Hub Advisory Board Member, on the death of his life-partner, UBC-Vancouver Humanities scholar Y-Dang Troeung, on November 27th, 2022 after a year-long battle with cancer. Those of you who knew her know that Y-Dang was a model colleague: generous, […]

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“Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education” awarded SSHRC Partnership Grant
June 16, 2022 | The Public Humanities Hub is a co-applicant on the newly awarded “Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education”, a SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Charlotte Schallié, University of Victoria, which will gather and commemorate the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, including survivors of the Holocaust, […]

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CES Events and Resources in Response to Ukraine Invasion
As the crisis in Ukraine unfolds, the Centre for European Studies (CES) is compiling resources and developing events that provide background information, teaching resources, reliable news sources, and ways to help. See their page of resources for more information, which will be continuously updated. The Public Humanities Hub will be working to promote events and […]

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Upcoming Events

An open book against a purple background with codeMeet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines

The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network, co-led by Sydney Lines (EL&L; PHH Advisory Board), co-authors a new TEI schema for digital texts to develop antiracist, inclusive text markup practices.

Universities should respond to cuts and corporate influence with co-operative governance

Dr. Michelle Stack (EDUC) and Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein (U of T) advocate for moving existing educational models from a rankings-based system to a cooperative framework.

Graphic novel depicting history of relocated Vancouver Island First Nation nears completion

With support from the UBC Comics Studies Cluster, a forthcoming graphic novel illustrated by Indigenous artists shares the history of the Homalco First Nation (HFN) as remembered by Elders.

The enduring appeal of a century-old German film about queer love

Dr. Ervin Malakaj discusses the silent German movie Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others), which hoped to dispel public misconceptions of same-sex relations and abolish Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code.

Gaming the System

Dr. Christopher Patterson’s work examines the intersection of race and video games—across both game development and play. Learn about what drew him to this topic, how he views the role of his own identity in his research, and about some of his key projects.

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Headshot of Dr. Heather Douglas, smiling, in a black jacket and white top

Fostering Trustworthy Science

Mar 28, 2025 | Although many have argued that science as an institution should be generally trusted by the public, others have noted that there are lots of reasons for distrust between the public and science. This focuses our attention on what should be considered trustworthy science, how to generate that kind of science, and […]

An open book against a purple background with code

Meet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines

The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network, co-led by Sydney Lines (EL&L; PHH Advisory Board), co-authors a new TEI schema for digital texts to develop antiracist, inclusive text markup practices.

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Serikbolsyn Tastanbek

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New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Bernard Perley

Dr. Bernard Perley, Director and Professor in Critical Indigenous Studies and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about his work in language revitalization, experiential pedagogy, and the crucial role art plays in both scholarship and activism.

New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Kavita Philip

Dr. Kavita Philip, Professor of English and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, sits at the epicentre of multiple networks, fostering interdisciplinary research within and beyond the academy. In this Scholar Spotlight, she talks about what it means to speak to a rapidly shifting global public, and finding spaces that allow for experimentation and collaboration.

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Dennis Britton

Dr. Kavita Philip

Building Networks and Centering the Margins with Dr. Kavita Philip

26 August 2024 Written by Ying Han Excavating the rhizomatic system that has long connected the sciences and humanities, university and publics, the analog and the digital, Dr. Kavita Philip has devoted much of her academic career to activating different networks of knowledge that can help us adapt to the rapidly changing conditions of climate […]

Dr. Bernard Perley

Dr. Bernard Perley teaches us to think more creatively about scholarship

11 June 2024 Written by Ying Han In the face of persistent metaphors of death and a focus on damage in academic research on Indigenous languages and communities, Dr. Bernard Perley has learned to develop and advocate for more future-oriented ways of thinking both in and outside of the academy. From his dissertation work on […]



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